Grammar-based distance in progressive multiple sequence alignment

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Table 2 Average TC scores on BAliBASE.

Algorithm	RV11	RV12	RV20	RV30	RV40	RV50
MUSCLE (fast)	0.2421	0.6349	0.2599	0.2457	0.2614	0.2719
MAFFT (fast)	0.2354	0.6209	0.3094	0.2910	0.3108	0.3087
MAFFT v6 (parttree, n = 50)	0.2461	0.6320	0.2978	0.2987	0.3104	0.3435
MAFFT	0.2532	0.6256	0.3168	0.3158	0.3073	0.3303
GramAlign	0.2993	0.6701	0.2917	0.2503	0.3292	0.3006
Kalign	0.2538	0.6749	0.2765	0.2955	0.3253	0.3223
ClustalW (fast)	0.2317	0.6651	0.2680	0.2513	0.2808	0.2752
MUSCLE	0.3217	0.6961	0.3077	0.3087	0.3484	0.3397
ClustalW	0.2395	0.6417	0.2602	0.2478	0.3024	0.2658
PSAlign	0.3503	0.7384	0.3517	0.2992	0.3951	0.3816
T-Coffee	0.2716	0.6986	0.3257	0.3637	0.3659	0.3974

Average TC score for each algorithm for each category offered by the BAliBASE test suite. The bold entries indicate the lowest and highest scores.

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